Hoyer: No More Short-Term Spending Bills
The Hill reports:
House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) warned Friday next week's short-term funding measure will be the last one he supports.
Hoyer made the threat during a lengthy colloquy with House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) after the Republican said the House expected to vote on a new three-week spending bill on Tuesday.
"You may keep passing these two weeks at a time, none of us want to shut down government," Hoyer said. "But I will tell you that while I and some of my colleagues may vote to do this one more time, for me it's the last time."
Cantor said the three-week spending bill would cut about $6 billion more from fiscal year 2010 levels, in line with the pace of cuts in H.R. 1, the House-passed FY 2011 spending bill. Hoyer pressed Cantor repeatedly to make a counter-offer to the $10 billion in cuts that Democrats have proposed from FY 2010 levels, but Cantor said the Senate and White House need to be more involved in the process.
"It's not just the House, it's trying to work with the Senate as well as the White House," Cantor said. "The problem is the White House has not indicated where it wants to go. I just don't see where the leadership is on the part of the White House.
"We're waiting to see what position the White House will take so that we can move forward and begin the job that we're supposed to be about right now, which is the next fiscal year," Cantor added.
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